Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Remix album (mash-up) by The Beachles (Clayton Counts)
Released	September, 2006
Genre	mash-up
Length	69:21
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The Beachles Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a track-for-track mash-up of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds with The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by Clayton Counts, posted on his blog. It received favorable mentions in Entertainment Weekly and USA Today, as well as blogs around the world. Sometime around September 8th, 2006, Counts received a cease and desist order from EMI's attorneys. Notably, the letter included a demand for Counts to hand over the IP addresses of everyone who downloaded or streamed the songs, even if they were streamed from one of the hundreds of other websites linking to them. Counts removed the songs, but refused to give up the IPs and fired back with a lengthy missive on his blog.[1] This prompted a response in the alternative press, in addition to further exposure from news outlets such as the Associated Press and Rolling Stone, which resulted in a letter-writing campaign and a boycott of EMI and Capitol Records on behalf of Mr. Counts.

The tracks are available from many torrent sites and Clayton Counts even linked to the tracker site isoHunt as a place to still download The Beachles after his cease and desist letter.